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"Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite."
"Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation."
"This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind."
"Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that."
"Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority."
"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
"I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world."
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."
"Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery."
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."
"All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion."
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."
"The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
"We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us."
"A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone."
"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there."
"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
"The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion."
